Malawi’s former ruling UDF party senior official Humphrey Mvula has said the party has a letter from Machinga North East constituents demanding their member of parliament Atupele Muluzi to stop his presidential bid for 2014. According to a letter, Atupule has been asked to scrap off his interest for the high office in the country […]
The extent to which some people will go, to show to the world at large their stupidity can be quite amazing. Take for instance, recent developments in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF). The UDF, in these days of the internet, email, sms and tweeter, has rediscovered the forgotten art of letter writing. The […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi has advised UDF gurus to go to the High Court in Blantyre and study the file for his criminal case the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is handling, saying the money they are demanding him to account for is being used by the bureau on one of the charges. In a letter […]
The former governing United Democratic Front (UDF) say it will select its presidential candidate in 2013, a year before the general elections. The party has however announced that it will a national convention in April 2012 which will not elect a presidential candidate, but a new national executive committee. “The United Democratic Front…has identified core […]
Imagine if you win, a grand prix. This Grand Prix features an assortment of models of different makes, ages, colours, engine capacities, configurations and designs. One lot of these cars is, for various reasons, racing in very rough terrain – a pothole riddled road, or may be something worse: the Dakar Challenge if you know […]
(Shortened from a longer academic paper) Even Dr Banda, who was fond of calling Chiume, Chisiza and Chipembere ‘my boys’, did, in polite moments, call Orton Chirwa ‘Mr Chirwa’. And, even when he was ill-treating Orton Chirwa, the ‘Mr Chirwa’ sometimes slipped out (Vera Chirwa, 2007, page 74). Orton Chirwa was born in 1919, in […]
Presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi, says he does not believe in giving monetary handouts, saying his ‘change’ agenda also includes moving away from dishing out freebies as campaign inducement. Atupele told Nyasa Times after his meeting on Wednesday at UDF Headquarters in Limbe, Blantyre, and party members […]
Dr. George Nga Mtafu, who until recently ‘united’ with the UDF faction that is led by UDF interim President Friday Jumbe, was on Wednesday at UDF Headquarters in Limbe, Blantyre, where presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi held a party meeting. Dr. Mtafu was until recently leader of a UDF faction, which rivaled Jumbe’s until the two […]
Most people hated him passionately – Bakili Muluzi – the former President of the Republic of Malawi. And most people adored him, Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika – except for a few voices who expressed skepticism from the start like the doubting “Toms” Likambale and Chiumia in particular of this world who urged people to wait […]
Malawi’s private Joy TV says it will register in Zambia as a limited liability company in that country and will beam to Southern Africa without interfering with any frequency dismissing claims by Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) that it will be “illegal.” Lawmaker Atupele Muluzi told The Nation newspaper and Capital Radio’s Daybreak Malawi that […]
I am a proponent of leadership renewal. Some young and fresh ideas will go a long way in solving the myriad problems inflicting Malawi today. I however do not buy into this idea of thrusting a 33 or even 35 year into an elective office like the presidency. I am not Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
A Lilongwe based media expert has warned that Joy Television broadcasting from Zambia will be dangerous to President Bingu Wa Mutharika and his administration than leaving the TV station to broadcast in Malawi. His comments follow an announcement that newly elected Zambian President Micheal Sata has given a green light to Joy Television, which has […]
An opinion poll survey conducted by Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) to find out the popular candidate in the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF), indicates Atupele Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi emerged winner. However, the media house which promised to publish results of the opinion survey in its Sunday Times […]
The dawn of democracy was charged with excitement and high expectations in Malawi since it was time for Malawians to choose a leader of their choice. Malawians were optimistic of being fully represented in the national assembly. Indeed people thought it was the end of socio-political grievances which they had accumulated under the one party […]
Zambia President Micheal Chilufya Sata has shunned Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika at his country’s 47th independence celebrations but extended his invitation to vice president Joyce Banda and former president Bakili Muluzi. The 47th independence celebrations for Zambia will be held on Monday October 24 in Lusaka and will be Sata’s maiden investiture ceremony as head of […]
Atupele Austin Muluzi, the 33 year-old son of former President Bakili Muluzi who is also Member of Parliament and deputy leader of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in parliament, says he wants to run for president. That, at any rate, is good news. The nation has a shortage of brilliant young minds eager to step […]
Ex-president Bakili Muluzi’s Joy TV which was stopped by Malawi authorities on its inception has been permitted to establish their station in Zambia’s Eastern Province, according to President Micheal Sata. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) denied Joy television broadcasts in 2007, when it had already started beaming. But son to former president Muluzi, Atupele, requested […]